Mountains and Molehills: Or, Recollections of a Burnt JournalHarper and brothers, 1855 - 393 sider Frank Marryat (1826-1855) left England for California via Panama with a manservant and three hunting dogs in 1850, hoping to find material for a book like his earlier Borneo. On his return to England in 1853, Marryat married and brought his bride back to California that same year. Yellow fever contracted on shipboard forced him to cut the trip short and return to England where he died two years later. Mountains and molehills (1855) is a sportsman-tourist's chronicle of California in the early 1850s: hunting, horse races, bear and bull fights. It also includes an Englishman's bemused comments on social life in San Francisco, Stockton, and the gold fields. |
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... turning , and among these is a western man's curiosity . The padrone of my canoe , who steered the boat , had brought his wife with him , and she sat with us in the stern sheets , laughing , chattering , and smoking a cigar . I could ...
... turning , and among these is a western man's curiosity . The padrone of my canoe , who steered the boat , had brought his wife with him , and she sat with us in the stern sheets , laughing , chattering , and smoking a cigar . I could ...
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... turned adrift to seek their supper where they could ; and travellers , muleteers , and luggage were spread in every direction round a large fire that had been lit in the early part of the evening . Desert- ing my inhospitable tree , I ...
... turned adrift to seek their supper where they could ; and travellers , muleteers , and luggage were spread in every direction round a large fire that had been lit in the early part of the evening . Desert- ing my inhospitable tree , I ...
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... turning a BAR of gold to any account when once it has been taken into the jungle . Since the time of which I am writing many attempts have been made to rob the gold trains , but , when pursuit has been active , the bars have invariably ...
... turning a BAR of gold to any account when once it has been taken into the jungle . Since the time of which I am writing many attempts have been made to rob the gold trains , but , when pursuit has been active , the bars have invariably ...
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... turned to good account ; and nothing but the bungling stupidity of some of those who were sent here to pull the wires prevented the consummation of some of the greatest swindles that ever were imposed upon the English public . I feel ...
... turned to good account ; and nothing but the bungling stupidity of some of those who were sent here to pull the wires prevented the consummation of some of the greatest swindles that ever were imposed upon the English public . I feel ...
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... , bringing the butt down on his head , as he passed within a foot of me . I never witnessed any sight so dreadful as this dog when he turned now and deliberately attacked us , his whole appearance was changed , and the saliva frothed.
... , bringing the butt down on his head , as he passed within a foot of me . I never witnessed any sight so dreadful as this dog when he turned now and deliberately attacked us , his whole appearance was changed , and the saliva frothed.
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Mountains and Molehills, Or, Recollections of a Burnt Journal Frank Marryat Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1855 |
Mountains and Molehills: Or, Recollections of a Burnt Journal Frank Marryat,John Boardman Trask Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1855 |
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